I have a Crucial M4 256GB SSD running Windows 8 Home. After reading both your post and your referenced MS Technet website, I re-enabled the optimization (not defrag) tool in my Win8 system (my system shows no defrag options as such).
After installing Win8 earlier, I had turned that "optimization tool" off, because I didn't understand what it was. I had thought maybe it was just another name for defragmentation.
Today (1/16/2013), after turning it back on, I clicked on the Optimize button for the first time. The function took only about two seconds. I don't think the tool defragged the SSD since the tool took only such a short time to complete the optimize function. Take a look at the picture of my "Optimize Drives" panel above.
I don't know whether some SSDs cannot be identified as such and, consequently, Windows 8 will do a real defrag. I don't think Win8 is doing a real defrag on my system. Even so, I don't understand much of what posters are saying on your referenced Microsoft Technet website. Some seem to have issues I can't relate to.
After I performed the optimization, I reviewed the information posted in my Windows 8 Event Viewer. I found no entries relating to the optimization activity I performed. So, I don't know what is going on in some people's systems when they either see defragmentation activity, or they think there may be such activity, on their SSDs. As one poster said, "As with most things the issue defies being oversimplified...."
Freddy
